Tinka Bechert

Tinka Bechert´s work continuously shows a keen historic interest that she combines with process-oriented painting. The artist reinvents and re-invigorates historic sources in order to assemble current visual metaphors. A slightly askew or absurd realism emerges that describes the slippages in human perception.
Alongside her painting practice, Tinka Bechert has worked on ambitious collaborations with scientific institutions such as the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg). In exploring difference and commonalities in artistic and scientific methodologies, the artist explores the deep human need for reason as a common driving force- both in the arts and sciences.

Tinka Bechert was born and raised in Berlin, Germany but divides her time between Ireland and her native Berlin, having shown her work extensively across Europe, The UK, and Ireland. Tinka Bechert´s work is represented in many private and public collections such as the Office of Public Works, Ireland, the Central Art Archives/ National Library, Berlin, Germany and Tate Britain, London.

1975: born and raised in Berlin 1996: moved to Ireland 2011: lives and works in Berlin and Ireland 2003: Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours, Institute of Technology, Sligo/ IE 2010: Masters in Visual Arts Practice, Dun Laoghaire; Institute of Art& Design, Dublin/ IE

Tinka Bechert’s art works appear in different public and private art collectins in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Austria, Ireland and the UK. Some examples are the Office of Public Works/ IE and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Victoria & Albert Museum (National Art Library, London) and the Tate Britain, London.